One day, in the great land of America, a few businessmen got together and said, “Folks, we all work for Geico and want them to succeed. Let’s do some branding.” “How can we make them succeed with ...

It likely did not feel like marketing magic when The Martin Agency combined insurance, a lizard and a British accent in 1999. But alas, magic it became. More than 150 commercials later, the Geico ...

The GEICO lizard was created in a stroke of advertising genius in 1999 by the Martin Agency in Richmond, Virginia. The company was working with GEICO to find a hot new mascot, and the gecko came about ...

Starting in the mid-1990s GEICO, a direct marketer of automobile insurance, began spending an increasing amount of money on advertising, particularly television spots. The company's ad agency, the ...